Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
The Vostok Komandirskie 1965 watch, released in the autumn of 2015, is a special release to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Chistopol Watch Factory Vostok becoming the official supplier to the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet union and the Red Army. The first …
I had a Vostok Amphibia 110 shaped hole in my collection of Russian watches and decided to fill it with a Vostok Amphibia 110 Radio Room, model 110650. This watch came from www.komandirskie.com. The Vostok 110 case shape is large and angular with much more …
So what is a Franken watch? As you might suspect the name derives from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in which a science student, Viktor Frankenstein, creates a sentient humanoid being from all sorts of bits and pieces. So put simply a Franken watch is a watch …
This Vostok Komandirskie Ukraine is a watch that sparked some debate on Facebook, some political which I am not interested in, but mostly about identifying the model. Whilst I was preparing to write this blog post and I was researching the watch, I couldn’t find …
My first Slava! I have had my eye on the Slava 2428 Watermelon for a little while. It was for sale on Ebay in the UK, and I finally got round to buying it. Slava, which translates as “Glory”, is a civilian watch brand, the second …
The weather here in the UK is becoming more spring-like with the day so I decided to dust off one of my spring / summer watches, the fantastic Vostok Amphibia Sailboat dial in the 710 Ministry Case. This particular Vostok Amphibia is model number 710615 …
I thought I would share my collection of Vostok Amphibia watches with the 710 “Ministry” case. This is probably my favourite Vostok Amphibia watch case. To me, it is very easy on the eye, the best looking of the Vostok Amphibias and it is just …
This is rapidly becoming one of my favourite watches. This particular Vostok Komandirskie K-34 Automatic, model 2426/350006, is a lot of watch for the money, if you can find one in stock somewhere. Mine came from www.komandirskie.com, at a very good price. Firstly, let me say, …
The Vostok Amphibia Operation Desert Shield has an interesting story behind it. There also seem to be a lot of variations of this watch, Komandirskies, Generalskies and Amphibias, some are real and some are frankens. I think mine is the real deal, an Amphibia 420 …
Can you really call it modding? I mean really, taking a watch and bunging a new strap, bezel and bezel insert on it is not the most technical accomplishment is it? It is about as far as my techincal skills stretch though. It is, however, …